29 December 2013

Ace Attorney Movie Review

Title: Ace Attorney

AKA: Turnabout Trial

Genre: Law, Comedy, Drama

Origin: Japan

Release date: 11 Febrary 2012

Cast: Narimiya Hiroki, Kiritani Mirei and Saito
Takumi.

In a future version of Japan where
technology is very much progressed, Attorney Ayasato Chiriho () has hired a new
attorney in her office: Naruhodo Ryuichi (Narimiya Hiroki). Naruhodo is rookie
that panics under pressure, and has hard time finding evidence or explaining
evidence. Different is his childhood friend Mitsurugi Reiji (Saito Takumi) who
has become a prosecutor and has not lost any cases before.

One day Chihiro calls Naruhodo and tells
him she has had a breakthrough in a case she had been working on finding
evidence for a long time, so she tells him to meet her at the office - only to
find her dead. The prime suspect happens to be her younger sister Ayasato Mayoi
(Kiritani Mirei) who has all evidence pointing at her.

After proving her innocence, Naruhodo
tries to figure out the truth about the death of his mentor, but is interrupted
by Mayoi telling him to watch TV, where the news is all about Mitsurugi being
arrested for murder, and found with the murder weapon. This makes Naruhodo
decide to take the case and prove his friends innocence…

I watched this out of two reasons: one
Narimiya Hiroki and second is because tumblr kept showing me pictures of this
movie. Though I did finish it, I am not
sure if this is a children’s movie or just one of those black humor movies,
which I decided in the end I would asses as a children’s movie.

It is fun and pretty interesting, and I
did find myself compelled by the storyline, even though I kind of knew who the
real criminal was and all. The pace made it really entertaining and I kind of
started to loose myself for 2 hours LOL. Narimiya is amazing as always, and I
love him. If you want to see him in a comedy role this should be your pick
honestly.